The gift shop (if there is one) is usually my favourite part of a visit to a significant building. Last year, I liked The Wizard of Oz merchandise at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. On Thursday, it was Leninade at the International Spy Museum.
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Aug
Sometimes when I get bored while watching a movie, I start listing, in my head, lists of Best Picture, Actor and Actress Oscar winners from 1950 to 1990. Yet I was never in a rush to visit Hollywood. I finally made it there at the end of last month because I was going to the…
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Aug
In the Golden Age of Hollywood, it was perfectly acceptable for a woman to have several lovers, just so long as she was taken to a psychiatric institution (A Streetcar Named Desire), drove off a cliff (Butterfield 8) or fell through ice into a lake (Flesh and the Devil). Similarly, not so long ago (eg last year),…
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Aug
Between us, my dear friend Rebecca and I have worked as a rocket scientist and a lawyer, but our attempts to pick ‘cheap and cheerful’ restaurants in San Francisco have met with mixed success. Last weekend, we took Lisa to Fang (660 Howard St, near the W). Cheap? Not particularly (though it might be when compared with a…
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Aug
Watching the San Francisco Giants last Sunday, with my Californian friend Lisa next to me. I was also with two other Californian friends, who I’ll post about later.
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Aug
On Sunday at AT&T Park, on my way to the baseball.
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Aug
On Friday, my friend JJ and I saw A Chorus Line at the Hollywood Bowl, a musical which has seen an unusual, relative reversal in fortunes. In 1975, it opened the month after the original Broadway production of Chicago. A Chorus Line ran for 15 years, getting a record; Chicago for two. When I visited New York City…
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Aug
… or you may find yourself using part of your 23 kilo baggage limit on these. Thankfully, San Francisco, where I arrived yesterday, has an Ecco store, though so far it hasn’t been sandal weather.
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